CCMA - Landmark Gastro Clinic

Ohio County Healthcare • Owensboro, KY

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About The Position

The Medical Assistant position at OCH Gastro Clinic Owensboro is a nonexempt role responsible for performing a variety of clinical and administrative duties. The Medical Assistant assists in patient care as assigned and under the direction of a physician or nurse practitioner. This role involves regularly performing patient care duties and handling clerical, environmental, and organizational tasks to ensure that patients fully utilize and benefit from the clinic's services.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• RMA, CCMA, or licensed by Kentucky Board of Nursing as LPN or CNA.
• Preferred outpatient clinical office experience.

Responsibilities

• Assists assigned provider in giving patients great care, including scheduling, organizing patient flow, physical exam preparations, drug administration, prescription verification with physician orders, minor surgery assistance, surgical tray set-up, patient care instruction, and performing other duties as assigned by provider.
• Provides great patient care, including assisting patients to and from exam rooms, collecting patient history, performing screenings, taking vital signs, performing waived testing laboratory procedures, applying dressings, performing therapeutic modalities, performing EKG's, removing sutures, giving injections, performing capillary punctures and venipunctures, and performing other duties within scope of practice that exceeds patient expectations.
• Provides performance improvement activities that improve patient health while increasing quality of services and care provided, including ensuring patient screenings are up-to-date, cooperating in setting and implementing improvement priorities, assuring that all scheduled referrals and outside testing is completed and properly followed up-on, responding timely to patient messages and requests, and addressing infection control issues.
• Understands and fully utilizes electronic medical records, assists provider in fully utilizing medical records, assures that records properly reflect services provided to patients, accurately and appropriately charts personal patient care encounters, sends/receives patient medical records, obtains lab/x-ray reports, and maintains equipment/sterilization as needed.
• Fulfills organizational requirements including respecting and promoting patient rights, responding to emergencies appropriately, identifying and addressing practice priorities, understanding compliance and carrying out activities in full compliance with outside-mandated and internally-imposed requirements, and completing other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED